Summary
Flavian Popa is a Lead Developer with 11 years of experience building cloud-first, event-driven data integration platforms and microservices for large enterprises. Based in Aarhus, he has driven architecture and delivery at BESTSELLER—refactoring monoliths into Kubernetes-native services on GCP and optimizing message throughput via Azure Service Bus to handle millions of messages daily. He combines hands-on backend skills (Java, reactive patterns, message brokers) with a pragmatic focus on observability and automation, having extended integrations for ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana and delivered SDKs for infrastructure-as-code experiences. Known for mentoring teams and defining best practices, he also has a background in high-throughput queue processing (≈1,000 msg/s batching) and early freelance work in web/SEO that keeps his product instincts sharp.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at VIA University College
English, Romanian, Danish